Even switching from the SATA 2 to SATA 3 controller can result in such a boot loop. My old drive, running XP, is the old IDE type and I have bought a new SATA hard drive on which to install Vista. My problem is that the computer fails to detect it at all. SATA devices connected to it may show one or more of the following symptoms from time to time: - SATA devices not detected at POST stage or inside CMOS setup screen. SATA Hard Drive Not Detected by Motherboard. dilen asked on 2005-03-02. Hello I have a Asus B450-F gaming, that is not detecting a HDD current HDD set up - two M2 hard drives - one SSD 500 GB - connected on - one SSD 1 TB - one 2 TB HDD. are there any limitation on the amount of hard drives ? Problem: … These are 1TB drives from 2014, so not that old. Last Modified: 2012-05-05. I finally got my hands on another hard drive with an OS installed and plugged in into the SATA … Legacy/IDE, ACHI/SATA, or RAID mode. I have an Asus motherboard which supports SATA. SATA devices connected to it may show one or more of the following symptoms from time to time: - SATA devices not detected at POST stage or inside CMOS setup screen. I just recently completed a new system build. The system Read the drive but the drive itself wouldn’t read anything. Unfortunately, I have run into a snag. 1 Solution. I have a SATA USB harness that plugs in any 2 1/2" drive so I can pull or access all data on a hard drive. Just swapped drives last week. Storage; 10 Comments. Added a few Hard Drives and they also worked. - SATA HDD cannot complete the installation of operating system after enabling AHCI or RAID function. I also swap motherboards without losing activation. and the one that is not being recognized is. I have another hard drive on the shelf from a dead HP that I just plug into any HP and update to current build. It literally blew 2 DVD drives and 2 Sata HDD and I mean fried them when I turned on the comp. The SATA ports on my motherboard behave quite strange lately. 1,436 Views. My motherboard is not detecting the hard drives I have installed! A repair install or best yet a complete format and install of Windows will fix that. Asus p8z68 motherboard not detecting hard drive. Bought the designare board. one 1 TB HDD. Updated to the newest version of Windows 10 and started to have issues with the board recognizing the hard drives. They show as [Not Installed] in the Peripherals tab of the configuration interface. Also i have two other sata drives (160 and 80) and they arent being detected either. My optical drive seems to be working fine no matter which SATA port I use. The bios also complains and I have to hit (for some reason) to enable the old drive to continue with the boot up. New Gigabyte H370-HD3 does not recognize Western Digital SATA hard drives. Finally when I did manage to get a DVD drive to not blow out from being fried, it didn’t read anything I put in the drive. 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